Sentences with phrase «which turned violent»

The Let My Vote Count Alliance embarked on series of demonstrations, some of which turned violent with members of the Alliance being allegedly manhandled by the police.

Christians have taken to the streets of Virginia to oppose a white supremacy rally in the US state on Saturday which turned violent.

Not exact matches

The violent ups and downs, said Robert Shiller, an economics professor at Yale, may in turn undermine confidence in the economy, and the weakness in the economy can lead to more strident politics — all of which feeds the volatility loop.

Any student of the Græco - Roman world at the beginning of our era who tries to penetrate beneath the surface of the political, economic and military history of the period and discern what was going on in the minds of men, becomes aware of a widespread expectation of a turn for the better in human affairs, even the dawn of a golden age, after the violent convulsions which had disturbed society for a century or more.

The most violent confrontation, which occurred many years ago when a man tried to grab my wife, didn't turn out as he had planned when our dog defended my wife.

City Hall has clashed repeatedly with the new administration over New York's «sanctuary city» laws, which bar the NYPD and the Department of Corrections from detaining and turning over people without paperwork to federal immigration authorities — except in cases where those immigrants have committed one of 173 violent offenses.

According to Johnson Asiedu Nketia, the peaceful march which later turned violent and ended abruptly was needless since the Electoral Commission (EC) is already engaging political parties and other stakeholders after the NPP forwarded a petition to it.

The convoy turned into a field, at which point around 1,300 police descended upon them and a violent confrontation took place.

But the mayor told the Observer that he would not allow public dollars to go toward the defense of anyone found guilty of one of the 170 crimes that New York exempts from its «sanctuary city» protections — violent offenses like rape, murder and terrorism, for which local law enforcement will turn over a foreign national to federal authorities.

The intensity of the downdrafts and updrafts is vital, because in the end there needs to be a lot of stretching, which is when you take that existing rotation and turn it into something really violent like a tornado.

The cause could have been a violent collision with BN, which in turn could explain why the star ran away.

He was also a former Marine drill sergeant with a violent temper, which he turned on me from time to time.

As The Bride faces off against allies - turned - nemeses Budd (Michael Madsen) and Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah), she flashes back to the day of her deadly wedding, and we learn of how she was recruited to join the DiVAS, her training under unforgiving martial arts master Pai Mei (Liu Chia - hui), and her relationship with Squad leader Bill (David Carradine), which changed from love to violent hatred.

He made his big screen debut in Spike Lee's Crooklyn (1994), and he subsequently appeared in Lee's Clockers (1995), Girl 6 (1996), and Get on the Bus (1996), the last of which cast him as a gay man on his way to the 1995 Million Man March in Washington, D.C.Some of Washington's other memorable credits during the»90s included the Hughes brothers» Dead Presidents (1995), the warmly received ensemble romantic comedy Love Jones (1997), Steven Soderbergh's Out of Sight (1998), in which Washington gave a memorable turn as a scheming con's violent brother - in - law; Warren Beatty's Bulworth (1998), and Clint Eastwood's True Crime (1999), which cast Washington as a man awaiting execution on death row after being falsely accused of murder.

Now liberated from financial problems, Refn has been turning out sharp, violent, innovative genre fare at a prolific clip, including the 2008 biopic Bronson, about the world's most notorious inmate, and 2009's Valhalla Rising, which follows the mythic adventures of a one - eyed mute warrior during The Crusades.

The film follows former war hero and convict Snake Plissken, who's sent into a futuristic Manhattan which has been turned into a no - man's land / maximum security prison to bring back the American President after he's shot down over the island and captured by the violent gangs who now lay claim to the island.

John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson star in an adaptation of Stephen King's Cell, which turns a nation of cell phone users into violent zombies.

This example is a slice of 80s feminist science fiction in which women never gained equality with men and so turn to violent revolution to fight for what is rightfully theirs.

Saturday turned into the make or break day for the incredibly violent, laughably stupid «Rampage,» which looks as if it will hit that magical $ 34 million mark it was projected to achieve pre-release.

Beatrix Potter purists might be annoyed at the turn, but there is an exposition dump about Peter's (violent) history with Mr. McGregor done in the classic Potter style, which should soothe sore tempers.

A trailer has arrived online for director Mike Mendez's upcoming thriller The Last Heist, which stars Henry Rollins, Torrance Coombs and Victoria Pratt; take a look below... A bank heist descends into violent chaos when one of the hostages turns out to be a serial killer.

As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off - shore — and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in every which way.

In fact, there's barely a line between sex and death in the movie, which tells the story of a strange young woman who has been repressing feelings both sexual and violent and comes to an awakening soon after she turns 18.

The dog will start twitching which will gradually turn in to larger convulsions The convulsions normally become so frequent and violent, that euthanasia is often carried out at this stage.

«Following the tense situation in Bangkok which has turned increasingly more violent this week, Skyscanner has seen a 41 % drop in flight searches to Bangkok.

The signs that a Reaping will come have already manifested: people are being affected by searingly painful ulcers on the back of their necks, a curse which turns men into violent lunatics, and the appearance of a strange, murderous, masked race known as the Ense.

While most of the time Monster is friendly and can help you solve puzzles, he has one big problem — he is addicted to eating frogs which, though delicious, turn him into an enraged, violent beast.

While the first Mortal Kombat game turned the gaming world on its head with its blood «particles» and violent fatalities, the second installment, which was launched in 1993, is the one that solidified the franchise and helped it become what it is today.

My concerns with virtual reality turning beloved game franchises into realistic VR simulators rises when we look at how some of the violent and already realistic franchises and how series such as Grand Theft Auto could, potentially, be seen as VR crime simulators which could, unfortunately, lead to instances where those that previously claimed that violent video games could turn people into thugs could end up being correct.

Like Kaprow or land artist Robert Smithson, Nkanga is interested in humanity's fluctuating relationship to land and place, which is, at turns, violent and restorative.

He also talks about his backstory — growing up in Alabama, experiencing the Civil Rights Movement, which turned «vicious and violent,» and how he ended up in New York, where he graduated from The Cooper Union in 1964.

The aggressive tendencies in males lead them to become more aggressive in adulthood, which in turn is why they are more apt to commit violent crimes.

Our whole marriage has been me giving into her demands because I just don't want to deal with her temper tantrums which usually turn violent.

The child is unable to trust, which in turn creates frightening and violent behaviors.